Long time lurker here :wave: with a question about LED efficiency in the recent years past and to come.
I remember joining CPF a few weeks after Arc announced its retirement. Good god were people upset, and it rendered every Arc worth its weight in gold for a few years. Then the Nuwaii Q III stole our hearts with excellent quality for the cost, sporting the latest Luxeon III emitter that cranked out a whopping 20 lumens or so per watt. To me this was the first production light that set off the LED arms race we continue to see go on today.
Sorry for the trip down memory lane but it is part of the timeline I picture when it comes to LEDs. So today we are at hundreds of lumens per watt and I am just wondering when LEDs are going to be 100% efficient and available commercially? I think I read about them being 100% efficient in the lab and only so at tiny amounts of light for now. What possible uses would 100% efficiency entail? I dont know enough to make an educated guess but I feel like progress in LED efficiency came to a halt in the past few years due to a slow down of progression of computer/semiconductor technology (again a personal guess, I dont know jack about computers and its respective developments)
I remember joining CPF a few weeks after Arc announced its retirement. Good god were people upset, and it rendered every Arc worth its weight in gold for a few years. Then the Nuwaii Q III stole our hearts with excellent quality for the cost, sporting the latest Luxeon III emitter that cranked out a whopping 20 lumens or so per watt. To me this was the first production light that set off the LED arms race we continue to see go on today.
Sorry for the trip down memory lane but it is part of the timeline I picture when it comes to LEDs. So today we are at hundreds of lumens per watt and I am just wondering when LEDs are going to be 100% efficient and available commercially? I think I read about them being 100% efficient in the lab and only so at tiny amounts of light for now. What possible uses would 100% efficiency entail? I dont know enough to make an educated guess but I feel like progress in LED efficiency came to a halt in the past few years due to a slow down of progression of computer/semiconductor technology (again a personal guess, I dont know jack about computers and its respective developments)